"For those who only know Hosono from YMO and his technopop and ambient music, this album will be a surprise. His last solo album pre-YMO, it features his take on "exotica", a faux-oriental style pioneered by Martin Denny. Hosono is a kind of musical alchemist, mixing Okinawan folk melodies with New Orleans funk ("Asadoya Yunta"), Balinese percussion (on a drum machine!), and even that classic of fake Japanese, "Fujiyama Mama". This album features Sakamoto & Takahashi, and that, plus the clever use of synthesizers, makes it a kind of bridge between Hosono's solo music and the technopop to come. On it's own terms it's a great album, melodic, inventive, and fun."
- Text from MUSIC BLOG OF SALTYKA AND HIS FRIENDS
4th Greatest Japanese Rock Album of All Time according to Takarajima.
細野晴臣 - はらいそ
- 東京ラッシュ [Tokyo Rush]
- 四面道歌 [Shimendoka]
- ジャパニーズ・ルンバ [Japanese Rhumba]
- 安里屋ユンタ [Asatoya Yunta]
- フジヤマ・ママ [Fujiyama Mama]
- ファム・ファタール～妖婦 [Femme Fatale]
- シャンバラ通信 [Shambhala Signal]
- ウォーリー・ビーズ [Worry Beads]
- はらいそ [Paraiso]
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